Houston home journal. (Perry, Houston County, Ga.) 1924-1994, July 11, 1946, Image 3

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Newspaper Page TextIiSD More Honorary Degrees For 1946 Yoicks, Harriet Sue (secretary, stenographer and runner up for the 1937 Miss Yonkers award): Private secretary to Artemus G. Bilge, prominent business man and base ball addict, at no time did you ever meet the telephonic inquiry, “Is Mr. Bilge in?” with the reply, “Who is calling him?” This makes you an unique and extraordinary character. But above that it can be said that neither did you ever get the call er’s name and then reply quickly, “Mr. Bilge is in Indo-China for tne week-end.” Have a degree with ice cream on top. * Clabby, „aines B. (sports writer and gentleman of integrity): Help yourself to any degree in the house, with music. Assigned to cover the training camps in connection with a world championship bout you re fused to build up the battle beyond a reasonable point. You once went so far as to hint it might not be much of a battle. Wotta-man! * Sooks, Herman G. (citizen, scnol ar and bridge player): Asked to serve on a high-sounding committee to look into the causes of juvenile delinquency, you let out a war whoop, banged your desk and de manded, “What! Another commit tee? There are too many working on it already. To solve that prob lem all you have to do is take a look at the movies.” Here’s our degree as Doctor of Candor. And have a glass of beer as you go out! ♦ * * HARD TO GET 1 told the *man I’d like to get A little harmony; he said: “The ceilings are too low; Production isn’t free”; I asked about some world accord, Prepared or in the rough; He shrugged his shoulders and re plied, “We just can’t get the stuff.” “What are my chances for some peace?” I asked him with a sigh; “The trouble is,” he answered me, “Demand exceeds supply”; “We need some trustfulness,” I said “And honesty true blue”; He said, “It’s awful hard to get, Not much is coming through,” “Is tolerance yet coming through? How’s patience and restraint?” “Production should be good,” he said, “But just the same it ain’t.” Of milk of human kindness I Next made an inquiry, But got the word I’d have to have A high priority. • • • VANISHING AMERICANISMS "Here’s a nickel; go get me a couple of melons.” “ Wanted: Maid and general housework er; $l5 a week." • “And I also want some top round for the dog and a little fresh liver for the cat.” * • • A brewery worker, denied ad mission to a union because he couldn’t lift a 192-pound keg of beer from the street to a plat form six feet high, brought suit. In a court test to which six union brewery members were sum moned only one could do the stunt. Possibly the man who made the union rules was a “light beer” man. * • • The three biggest tobacco com panies in the country have been held to be a trust in violation of the anti-trust laws. We hope all were able to light a cigarette and find complete nonchalance. * * • CAN YOU REMEMBER— Away back when there was considerable brotherly love in this country? • * * The New York Telephone com pany is 50 years old this year. It goes away back to the days when people could be happy when not talking. • • • A Long Island doctor, unable to get an auto, is making his calls on a bicycle. It must be nice to get “what you need is exercise” from a sawbones who is getting tome. * • « Pfc. Oscar Purkey was asked how things were coming along on his battle for a decent home and re plied, “It looks better. Most of the new roller coasters, chute-the chutes and race tracks have been about completed.” • * * The skipper of a ferryboat has discovered that in a bread shortage seagulls will take cake. We asked , John Kieran for confirmation. He reported that as an old seagull stu dent he could state that those birds prefer cake and have been known to ; fly 5,000 miles for a chocolate layer ■ cake and put in another 1,000 miles if there were nuts on top. • • • The line of the week; Jimmy Du rante’s “I guess I came into this | just to get into a place that was air i conditioned” on Information Please, j CONGRESSMEN OFF TO PHILIPPINES . . , Seven senators and representatives left Washington airport for a round-the-world tour during which they expect to participate in the celebration at Manila marking Phil ippine independence. Left to right: Gen. H. L. George; Rep. Karl LeCompte (R., la.); Rep. J. W. Robinson, (D., Utah); Vernon Moore, secretary, Filipino rehabilitation commission; Sen. Hugh Butler, (R., Nebr.); Rep, Fred Crawford, (R., Mich.); J. Weldon Jones, President Truman’s representative; Sen. Allen Ellen der, (D., La.); Rep. George Miller, (D,, Calif.); Sen. Owen Brewster (R., Maine); and Brig. Gen. Carlos Romulo, resident commissioner of the Philippines. *- ” | x <1 f ■ % I ' - S9hH . ini < v Jill This air view shows tons of water being pumped into the oil-fed fire that blazed in four slips of the St. George ferry terminal on Staten island. A number of persons were trapped in the buildings. Nine alarms quickly sounded, summoning every piece of apparatus available and three fireboats. C' «'• " \ ',?■*'■ \\ > j’'.i?‘’ f ,' 'l'*-* -‘4I - INDIANS SELL OUT . . . The Cleveland Indians baseball tcSm was sold after almost a week of negotiations and offers. Acceptance of an offer by Bill Veeck of Chicago and his associates was made by Alva Bradley, ex-president of the Indians, for his former stockholders. Photo shows, left to right, Joseph Hostetler, attorney for Bradley and now secretary for the new combine; Harry Grabber, new vice president and treasurer, and Bill Veeck, new president of the club. SPEED RECORD . . . The fastest airmail delivery in the history of the United States was accomplished when a P-80 jet propelled plane carrying mail left Schenectady, N. Y., and arrived in Washington, D. C., in 49 minutes. Capt. Robert Baird, pilot, of Clarksdale, Miss., is hand ing the pouch and a letter from W. Stuart Symington, assistant secre tary of war for air, to Vincent Burke, postmaster at Washington. The plane reached a top speed of 580 miles an hour. THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL. PERRY, GEORGIA OWNER OF CROWN JEWELS . . . A photo of the Countess Von Hesse, princess of Prussia, as she looked in the days when Hitler and Goering were entertained at her Kronberg castle. It was from this castle that the Hesse-Darm stadt Jewels were stolen. I CONGRATULATIONS . intendent of schools, Vierling Ker sey, presents Gus Johnson Jr., \ North Hollywood (Calif.) high j school graduate, his diploma, as i the youth, paralyzed from waist | down, reclines on a stretcher. Know Your Congressman To Make Democracy Work By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WNU Service, 1616 Eye Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. The time of the singing of candi dates has come, and the voice of the mock - turtle is heard in the land, f pie are about your represent atives in the house of representa tives or in the senate have carried out your interests? Issues are being joined, there are sharp cleavages of thought these days. And if you don’t take the trouble to vote for the men in con gress who are voting the way you want them to, you have no right to lambast congress. True, it does take some trouble to learn to read your congressman’s record cor rectly. A simple statement by a candidate that he voted for the X bill (the one you wanted passed) doesn’t mean too much. A number of energetic organiza tions are out to tell you how to read the lawmaker’s records. One organization is the National Citi zen’s Political Action committee, which reminds voters: “A favorite device of congress men is to vote for a series of man gling amendments, or to procrasti nate with investigations or recom mittal. Then, having partially or completely wrecked the usefulness of a bill, they may vote for the final version. Don’t take these votes at face value.” In other words, don’t be satisfied with the record of the final vote. See how your congressman voted on the amendments. The NC-PAC literature concludes with a warning that any voter, what ever side he is on, may well take to heart; “When your congressmen start promising in their forthcoming campaigns, check their past voting records very carefully. Don’t take it for granted that if they voted for a measure, they were for it, and fought for it. Perhaps they helped cripple it first.” Disguise Enmity To Legislation That is true, and with a little in vestigation, you will learn that a lot of congressmen, whose real views and activities you really wouldn’t subscribe to at all, may have been voting in favor of some of the bills you would like to see passed. Later, when he is solicit ing your support, he will point with pride to these measures, omitting to mention the fact that he helped to emasculate them carefully be fore hand. You will also find sometimes that although he has loudly shouted down a bill (which you didn’t like, and, secretly, he did), he did not actually work against it. Perhaps, finally, he even voted for it if there was no roll call. Another way in which a congress man can fool his constituents is to offer an amendment which appeals to his particular locality, but which he knows can’t possibly go through. That appeases the constit uents and, at the same time, doesn’t hurt the congressman with the particular interests with whom he may be friendly. They know, as well as he does, that the whole thing is just an empty gesture. Kill Bill With Recommittal The vote to “recommit” is a fa vorite trick, and usually reveals the true sentiments of a senator or con gressman. Not much attention is paid to these votes. When a bill is "recommitted,” it is sent back to committee, supposedly for recon sideration. Actually, recommittal usually means the measure is pi geonholed forever. On the other hand, when a power ful committee pigeonholes a bill you would like to sec passed, and your congressman is willing to sign a petition to try to get it out, you can be pretty certain he is sincerely working to get it through. Of course, what goes on secretly in committees is most important, and can usually be found out, for the newspaper and radio corre spondents make every effort to BARBS ... by Baukhage After all that batting around in congressional committees, OPA, as expected, came out battered rather than bettered. • • « The Supreme court controversy boils down to what is really only a difference of opinion something which is taken for granted among individuals, and which is said to make horse-racing interesting. report the inside facts. This is no. difficult for the reporters, since committee members whose efforts were defeated are usually willing to divulge the machinations of the majority if there were any ma chinations. Admittedly getting all this infor mation takes time and trouble on your part. But that is the price you have to pay for the kind of govern ment you want. The government makes you take time to figure out your income tax and to do a lot of other little chores, but it doesn't force you to inform yourself on how your government is being run. How ever, the information is all there, if you care to take the trouble to get it. Reports of public hearings, as well as the record of what happens on house and senate floors, are avail able for the asking. That is a part of your congressman’s job report ing to you. As Lowell Mellett says in his “Handbook of Politics”: “The true test of a member of congress is not the good bills for which he voted, but the good bills he voted against plus the num ber of bad bills he voted for.” Nobody can ever take democracy away from you you have to give it away, by default. And such “de faulting” is no rare occurrence. With in the last few months, I know of four organizations which discovered there was a Communist in their midst. Furthermore, that Com munist, using his own energy, and taking advantage of the indifference of the other members, had gained a key position in the group. As soon as the rest woke up and realized the real purpose of measures taken under what amounted to this man’s minority rule they threw him out. You know, "eternal vigilance. . . Knowledge is power. Know your congressman, don’t knock him. • • • Ike Leaves Secrets Untold The final report of General Eisen hower to the combined chiefs of staff, which has at last been re leased, is a splendid example of terse and comprehensive exposi tion. Into less than 123 pages is compressed the epic of the great est military operation in history, ex tending from D-Day to V-E Day. It is unfortunate, for the sake of mystery lovers, that the document does not go into detail concerning one phase of the invasion which has rightly been called the “greatest deception in history” the clever ruses which caused the enemy to make his fatal miscalculations. The Germans knew that the Al lied landing must be made some where within a relatively lim ited length of shore-line, but despite this, they were completely deceived as to where that landing was to be. The result was that the Allies were able to get a toehold which they might never have been able to se cure, had the Germans guessed the prospective location of the real beachheads. Obviously, the natural place for a landing would be in reasonable proximity to Calais, where the Eng lish channel is narrowest. Actually, the nearest beachhead was estab lished more than a hundred miles farther to the west, but the whole German 15th army remained immo bilized in that locality until it was too late. But even after the landings were made, the Germans were hot sure they were the main objectives. This was because of a five-prong plan of deception, all the prongs pointing to simulated diversionary attacks by land, sea and air, away from the actual invasion area. One simulated attack was at Cap d’Antifer, northwest of Le Havre, far to the east of the invasion area. There, planes, ships and balloons moved in, gradually producing echoes on the German radar want ing instruments similar to the ap proach of a convoy. Another fake landing was staged in the direction of Boulogne, still farther east, with 16 ships and ac companying planes. The steady patrolling of the skies was taken by the Germans to be the air cov er of an oncoming armada. Far to the west, halfway down the Cherbourg peninsula, and at vari ous other points, dummy airborne invasions were carried out. The Germans finally decided that the real thing was approaching Boulogne, and opened up with all they had. Meantime, the actual in vasion forces crossed the channel without any interference by air ox sea. It was a grand fake. • * • A Case for The Forsaken ‘R* As a midwesterner born, I have battled many years for the letter “R.” Therefore I was overjoyed to find further distinction for the “Rs” as against the “R-nots.” It was in that strangely intriguing “Book About a Thousand Things” by George Stimp son (whose “Book About the Bible” 1 have mentioned before in these columns) that I learned that “R” and “L” are the "last and most dif ficult consonants added to speech,”